what does elemental mean?
ELEMENTAL as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- being or resembling a force of nature
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Similar To
- Meaning
- being the ultimate or elemental constituents of anything
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- the elemental stuff of…out of which the many forms of life have been molded- Jack London
- the ultimate ingredients of matter
- his proposal is elegantly simple
Similar To
- Meaning
- relating to or being an element
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- Meaning
- relating to severe atmospheric conditions
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- a race against hail or cold rains or some other elemental catastrophe- J.K.Howard
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